Letter: Sebastian City Council still ruled by wasteful clique

Clique, clique, clique, is all you’ll hear about Sebastian City Council.

Here are a few post-election lemon droppings — not sour grapes — which my best bud, columnist Russ Lemmon, will surely pick up on, since he wants to add his two cents regularly.

The Sebastian council clique is stronger now, and will continue pursuing reckless, self-serving and special-interest agendas with egregious wasteful spending, unless citizens speak up and snap to it before it’s too late.

With Election Day wins, the clique now has a super majority 4-1 vote on every issue that comes before council, as well as all the harebrained ideas clique members conjure up themselves to raid our treasury.

Lulled to sleep in this off-year election, only 2,343 of the 16,240 registered voters marked a ballot. That’s a disgraceful 14.43 percent.

And did the Jim Hill, Bob McPartlan and Andrea Coy clique succeed in easing independent thinker Don Wright out of his seat and slip like-minded Richard Gillmor into it with clever under-voting tactics? Wright only needed 20 votes to finish third, 62 for second and 200 for first, but 838 ballots were under-voted. Why?

These individuals schmoozed with Wright outside the precincts, but did they and their cohorts forget to mark him on their ballots?

Next year will Jerome Adams be eased out and another good ol’ boy or gal eased in to make an unbeatable, not-so-straight flush?

Power is intoxicating, and these people been drunk with it for years, approving one boondoggle after another. And it will get worse.

Politicians, like diapers, should be changed often, and for the same reason.